Local News in Brief : Huntington Beach : Firm’s Mail to Be Seized in Peroxide-Scam Probe
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Federal authorities in Los Angeles on Wednesday won a court order allowing them to seize the mail of a Huntington Beach firm that allegedly sells hydrogen peroxide under the fraudulent claim that the substance cures cancer and arthritis.
The 19-day temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District judge Pamela A. Rymer gives the U.S. attorney’s office the right to hold all incoming mail for DRK Buyer’s Plan, a mail order subsidiary of DRK Supplements.
“Incoming mail is the mail that contains the money,” said Assistant U.S. Atty. Brian Kipnis.
The government filed suit against the firm on Tuesday alleging that the mail seizure was necessary to stop DRK’s activities because “persons who use hydrogen peroxide may be allowing their arthritis and cancer to worsen by delaying proper treatment.”
DRK owner Kurt W. Donsbach of Chula Vista could not be reached. In addition to his mail order companies, Donsbach operates a clinic outside Tijuana.
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